Two recent articles published in the National Geographic and NASA Earth Observatory, “Signs From Earth: No Room to Run” and “How Will Global Warming Change Earth”, seek to raise awareness of the dangerous implications of global warming for human, animal, and plant life. While NASA’s articles share a similar device in projecting a message that is both omniscient and foretelling, National Geographic “Signs From Earth: No Room to Run” is the most informative because of its writing style being in the first-person account. There is also enough evidence given in “Signs From Earth: No Room to Run” that the other article just does not have, and finally, the formality and, more so, the tone found in the National Geographic far outweighs that of NASA Earth Observatory, plain and simple.
An obvious distinction between National Geographic’s, “Signs From Earth: No Room to Run” and NASA’s Earth Observatory, …show more content…
Best highlighted is where, in one example, NASA’s article reads: “It is impossible to pin any single unusual weather event on global warming, but emerging evidence indicates that planetary heating is already influencing the weather” (page 1). Thus, when compared to National Geographic, whose author writes: “The western Antarctic Peninsula has warmed so drastically because of a combine in rising global temperatures and regional shifts in ocean and gentle wind streams. Worldwide, temperatures have warmed far more slowly—an average of one degree Fahrenheit (0.56 degrees Celsius) over the past century—yet even that relatively small change is rippling through the natural world” (page 1). Here we distinguish the effect that NASA has on audiences - who are left but to wonder, while, in the case of National Geographic, the reader is immediately presented with a thorough response, leaving nothing left to question, making this article the most
An obvious distinction between National Geographic’s, “Signs From Earth: No Room to Run” and NASA’s Earth Observatory, …show more content…
Best highlighted is where, in one example, NASA’s article reads: “It is impossible to pin any single unusual weather event on global warming, but emerging evidence indicates that planetary heating is already influencing the weather” (page 1). Thus, when compared to National Geographic, whose author writes: “The western Antarctic Peninsula has warmed so drastically because of a combine in rising global temperatures and regional shifts in ocean and gentle wind streams. Worldwide, temperatures have warmed far more slowly—an average of one degree Fahrenheit (0.56 degrees Celsius) over the past century—yet even that relatively small change is rippling through the natural world” (page 1). Here we distinguish the effect that NASA has on audiences - who are left but to wonder, while, in the case of National Geographic, the reader is immediately presented with a thorough response, leaving nothing left to question, making this article the most